Essential Albums - Death Metal

Last week we brought you the essential thrash metal albums. This week, we bring you the essential death metal list. Below you will find the results of many painstaking hours of metal geekdom to come up with a list of the albums any death metal fan should have. Special thanks for this list goes out to /r/metal and nakedcups, Shamed, Brainstormu, BrutalN00dle, thegauntlet, mattosaur, and deathofthesun, and a few others whom we might have overlooked.

Asphyx - Last One on Earth
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Avulsed - Yearning From The Grotesque
Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit
Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
Brutality - Screams of Anguish
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Carbonized - For the Security
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Convulse - World Without God
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Cynic - Focus
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death - Leprosy
Death - Human
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - Deicide
Demigod - Slumber of the Sullen Eyes
Demilich - Nespithe
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed - Demos
Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd
Funebre - Children of the Scorn
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Gorefest - False
Grave - Into the Grave
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil
Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Immolation - Close to a World Below
Immortalis - Indicium de Mortuis
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Massacra - Final Holocaust
Massacre - Inhuman Condition
Master - Master
Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Mordicus - Dances From Left
Morgoth - Cursed
Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity
Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
Necrophobic - Satanic Blasphemies
Necrovore - Divus De Mortuus
Nihilist - Nihilist (1987-1989)
Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
Nuclear Death - Carrion For Worm
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Possessed - Seven Churches
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia
Sadistik Exekution - We Are Death... Fukk You!
Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Thanatos - Emerging from the Netherworlds
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
Vader - Litany


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Jason Fisher    April 30, 2012